Deutschland und Armenien 1914–1918: Sammlung diplomatischer Aktenstücke
A collection of reports and telegrams of the German embassy at Constantinople and the German consulates in the Ottoman Empire, taken from the files of the German Foreign Office and published in 1919 with an introduction by the editor.
Johannes Lepsius, a German Protestant pastor who had gone to Constantinople in the summer of 1915, says in his foreword that after the war he asked the German Foreign Office for access to its files on the Armenian question and was given it. The volume prints several hundred documents: reports from the ambassadors to the Chancellor in Berlin, telegrams from consuls at Aleppo, Erzurum, Trebizond, Adana and Mosul, and notes of conversations with Ottoman ministers and with the Armenian Patriarch.
Germany was the ally of the Ottoman Empire, and these are the working papers of its diplomats. The selection is the editor’s, and the long introduction is his own account. It is cited in the Destruction of the Armenian and Assyrian Christians for the embassy’s reports from the capital and for the dealings of Zaven I Der Yeghiayan with it.
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- 1915 to 1916, firm date